BELGIAN SENATOR: IT’S IMPERATIVE TO HONOR GENOCIDE VICTIMS AND TO PREVENT FUTURE ATROCITIES

PanARMENIAN.Net
27.04.2007 14:07 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The Royal Conservatory of Belgium was full of
diplomats, journalists and students on April 25 as Foreign Minister
Vartan Oskanian highlighted a Commemorative Evening under the auspices
of the Armenian Embassy in Brussels.

The Minister’s talk, entitled Remembering a Past, Forging a Future,
addressed the nature and purpose of remembering. He spoke about
Armenia’s readiness for normal relations with Turkey, even as the
Genocide and its impact are remembered and recognized.

Belgian Senator Roelants du Vivier, head of the Belgian Senate’s
Committee on Foreign Affairs, spoke about the imperative of
acknowledging both to honor genocide victims and to prevent future
atrocities. He related how, during a recent visit to Yerevan, in
the Tsitsernakaberd Genocide Memorial museum, he was moved by the
display of Hitler’s words. The Belgian Senator had, in 1987, joined
in the first Genocide recognition resolution passed by the European
Parliament, the RA MFA reports.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress